• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.127-128
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a novel signaling method using chirp signals in UWB radio with satisfaction of FCC regulation. Chirp signals have been used in many ranging systems such as radar because of its good correlation properties. Because it is important to use broader signal bandwidth in order to get higher precision of the ranging, according to the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, UWB radio is extremely good as the ranging systems. But, it is very difficult to apply existing chirp signals to UWB, because FCC regulates that the systems operating in UWB radio must occupy signal bandwidth more than 500MHz on the condition of stopping the frequency sweeping. So, we propose multiple chirp signals which can satisfy the regulation of FCC while maintaining chirp signal's properties. The multiple chirp signals which are composed of the sub-chirps modulated by sub-carriers can expand the signal bandwidth with the same principle of OFDM systems. The simulation results show that the BER performance of the proposed multiple chirp signals is identical to that of conventional OFDM when it is applied to data communication, and that the correlation properties of the proposed signals are almost the same with properties as those of single chirp signals whose sweeping bandwidth is the same value with the proposed one.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.201-207
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• 2013

The chirp signaling has been mainly used in radar systems due to its good correlation characteristics, and nowadays it is applied to real time locating system(RTLS). The RTLS with chirp signaling was chosen as a standard such as ISO/IEC 24730-5 and IEEE 802.15.4a. In this paper, the performance of a real time locating system with chirp signaling was evaluated and simulated with relative distance error rates. We considered three cases of S/I = -30[dB], -20[dB], and -10[dB] with Rician factor K=10 and K=20. The performance was enhanced with K factor improvement by 25%, 27% and 50% for respective three cases of S/I. As results, in case of S/I < -20[dB], the minimum signal power is required for performance improvement even though the line of sight component is helpful. And also, in case of S/I ${\geq}$ -20[dB], as the line of sight component is stronger the better performance is obtained.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.30B no.5
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• pp.73-81
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• 1993

We have developed a system which can analyze the status of signal sent from/received to a signalling service equipment within the fully electronic switching system such as TDX-10. The system has such functions that acquire PCM signal of the preferred channel from the subhighway of the thirth-two channel by which a Universal Signal Tr ansceiver Unit(USTU) is connected with Time Switch Unit (TSU), and then classify the type of signal such as R2MFC/DTMF/CCT/VOICE, and determine the digit. Up to now, we have analyzed the frequency spec trum using the FFT. This paper describes the developement of PCM acquirer which can analyze the signal characteristics by acquiring the PCM signal in SHW(subhighway), and proposes the CZT(Chirp Z-Transform) algorithm. An algorithm which analyzes the acquired signal and determines the signal frequency and the corresponding power spectrum using the CZT is also discussed here.